Dungeon World 2: A Dungeon Core Experience by Jonathan Brooks

Author:Jonathan Brooks [Brooks, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

“While that is indeed worrisome, we have bigger problems we need to worry about right now. I told you to take care of the problem, SO TAKE CARE OF IT!”

The fact that even this information didn’t change the Regional Leader’s opinion on the matter spoke volumes. Am I going to be called on to provide Mana soon? From a couple of other sources, he heard that their border war wasn’t going too badly, but maybe his contacts didn’t really know the big picture. Gael was more inclined to believe that the gruff manner he and his problems had been dismissed was more telling. Things aren’t looking good.

There were a few Earth Cores nearby Aven’s Area, but when Gael had initially asked about applying to them for “Alliance” help, he was shut down quickly. He wasn’t to contact them in any way for help; in fact, he wasn’t supposed to tell them about the issue they were having at all. “It’s Faction-only information,” was what he had been told in no uncertain terms. He knew that the Nature/Earth/Water Alliance wasn’t that strong in their part of the world, so it was likely that if the local Earth Cores got wind of their troubles, they might pull what little support they were already providing elsewhere.

All of that meant that Aven and her Area were on their own to “take care” of the problem. While everyone in her Area were still assembling their armies in preparation of the retributive attack, Gael spent some time trying to figure out how there could possibly be a territory in the middle of the human settlement.

Since there was technically part of a Nature Core inside, he tried to Communicate with whatever was there – but he got no response. Either it was ignoring him, or it didn’t have the Mana Communication skill to respond (which he thought unlikely, because all cores were at least at the Expert level in the skill before they ever left their parents).

Next, Gael thought Harl might somehow still be alive and was working with two other cores to fight back against the humans, but he dismissed that almost immediately. There was no way any Nature Core would work with a Fire Core on anything, even to prevent their death; added to that, the presence of a Water Core firmed up that dismissal – the Water Faction hated the Fire Faction even more than Nature.

With no other explanation that he could think of, the only other possibility was something that he had trouble even considering. It was so horrible, so dreadful, that even thinking it was true, made his crystallized core shiver and shake in his Core Room a little.

The humans have somehow learned how to capture and control dungeon cores, bending them to their will.

He tried to banish the thought, but over the next few hours it kept coming back to his mind. Each time it surfaced, it was stronger and more forceful – and its arrival brought with it numerous logical reasons why it might be true.

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